105,313Records 71,083Employers 85,290Hospitalizations 27,770Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-10-31
Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025

Johnson and Jordan

Injured by slipping or swinging object held by injured worker · Cuts, lacerations

Federal OSHA recorded a severe workplace injury at Johnson and Jordan, Colby College, WATERVILLE, MAINE 04901 on — Cuts, lacerations, affecting the leg(s), unspecified.

An employee was cutting a steel pipe with a power grinder. The grinder kicked out and seriously cut the employee's leg.

Hospitalized Leg(s), unspecified Hand grinders-powered

Johnson and Jordan

An employee was preparing to work on a rooftop fan unit. The employee was slowing down the fan blades when the belt pulled the employee's left little finger around the pulley, resulting in amputation of the little and ring fingertips.

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Mako Contracting, LLC

An employee was using a saw to cut a piece of concrete when the piece gave way and pushed the saw into the employee's leg. The employee's leg was lacerated, requiring stitches and hospitalization.

East Penn Manufacturing

An employee was using a utility knife to cut honeycomb paper when the knife amputated their left index fingertip.

Ash Brothers Fireplace and Chimney Co

An employee was cleaning a resident's chimney. While using a drill, the employee's glove became caught in the drill and their finger was fractured.

RPM & Associates Inc

An employee was grinding some hardfacing on a bulldozer blade when the 9-inch grinder kicked back and lacerated his left leg above the knee. The employee was hospitalized and required surgery.

Tenaris Hickman

An employee was operating a rotating tool to place thread protectors on the end of pipe. Her left hand was on the rotating part of the tool when the tool engaged, resulting in a left forearm fracture and a thumb laceration.

Air-flo/Erwood Heating & Air Conditioning

An employee was moving a 3-ton condensing unit, strapped down on a dolly, out of a garage. The strap broke, causing the employee to fall backward onto the brick pavered driveway. The employee suffered injury to a spinal ligament in the neck.

Corrigan Brothers Inc

An employee was closing the side cargo door to a company van. The tip of his finger got caught between the door and the door jamb, resulting in a partial amputation.

Village Plumbing, Air & Electric

While working at a customer's residence, an employee was cutting tape with a box cutter to wrap insulation for a piece of pipe. The box cutter struck a hardened object within the wall causing it to bounce back and puncture the employee's right eye. The employee was hospitalized.

Goodrich Fire & Life Safety

An employee was assembling a baker type scaffold. He was beginning to transverse down the scaffold, approximately six feet off the ground, when the scaffold tipped over and he fell. The employee was hospitalized with a fractured femur.

Sprinklermatic Fire Protection Systems, Inc.

An employee was trimming out sprinklers on the exterior of a building when he fell off an extension ladder. He landed on the ground and sustained fractures to his nose and arm.

HB Fleming, Inc.

A crew was installing drilled micropiles alongside an outdoor covered deck foundation. The injured employee was working the front of the drill when a loose section of casing dropped onto the tip of a rig wrench and pulled the wrench down to an embedded casing. The employee's left little finger was caught between the rig wrench and the embedded casing and was amputated above the top knuckle.

GERRITY INDUSTRIES

Two employees were working to change a tire on a mobile slasher saw. The slasher weighs around 2,000 pounds and is towed. Employee 2 was lifting the saw while the injured employee was placing a block of wood under the frame for support. The slasher then lowered onto the block and the injured employee's left thumb was crushed between the slasher frame and the wood block, leading to an amputation at the first knuckle.

O&P Glass

An employee was using a metal shear when it amputated the tip of his right index finger.

Cives Steel Company New England

An employee was using a crane to move a 44-foot, 3,343-pound I-beam. As the beam was moving west, it straightened out (north to south), beginning to swing south toward the northwest corner of a building. The crane then sent the beam southward, directly toward the corner of the building. The beam caught the tips of the employee's left index, middle, and ring fingers against the building. The last joints of the middle and ring fingers were amputated, and the last joint of the index finger was partially crushed.

Longroad Energy

An employee was standing on a step stool, removing the nuts and bolts from the frame of a solar panel that was being replaced. The employee's cheek made contact with a connector with damaged insulation. The employee was shocked, briefly lost consciousness, and fell to the ground, suffering an injury to the left shoulder.